A Lewis Base Catalysis Approach for the Photoredox Activation of Boronic Acids and Esters

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 56, Issue 47, 2017, Pages 15136-15140

  Lima, Fabio ^a   Sharma, Upendra K ^b   Grunenberg, Lars ^a   Saha, Debasmita ^b   Johannsen, Sandra ^a   Sedelmeier, Joerg ^c   Van der Eycken, Erik V ^b,d   Ley, Steven V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

boronic acids; cross coupling; Lewis base catalysis; photoredox catalysis; synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYSIS; ESTERS; REDOX REACTIONS;

BORONIC ACID; CROSS-COUPLINGS; LEWIS BASE; PHOTOREDOX CATALYSIS; SYNTHETIC METHODS;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 85033772035     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201709690     Document Type: Article

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